Now it has stopped, but it was completely gray and hard wet snow coming down for a good 10 min. WEIRDNESS get behind me!
Jimmy Olsen jokes're pretty much gonna be lost on you, huh?
Xander ,'The Killer In Me'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
msbelle - Apr 08, 2009 5:37:01 am PDT #14399 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
tommyrot - Apr 08, 2009 5:37:19 am PDT #14400 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Well, see, Jimmy Webb was driving by the park and there had been a reception that got rained out. So there really was a wedding cake in the rain and he thought that was a sad metaphor for something....
OK, but that doesn't address the fact that the singer will never have that recipe again.
WTF?
tommyrot - Apr 08, 2009 5:39:48 am PDT #14401 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
For some reason that xkcd reminded me of the Far Side cartoon, where every scientist at a symposium has a duck, except for one who forgot his.
Yeah, even though it's not the same situation. It'd be closer if the one scientist didn't know why everyone else had a duck.
tommyrot - Apr 08, 2009 5:49:26 am PDT #14402 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
From the SciFi Channel's website: Review: Take a bite out of Jane Austen with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
A mostly good review, that concludes thusly:
It would be nice to report that Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is hilarious all the way through, but no. Its one-joke conceit (but very good one-joke conceit) carries it farther than you'd expect, but not all the way to the end. Folks who like zombies for their own sake will likely wish there were more of them and folks unfamiliar with Austen who find themselves enjoying her will likely wish they could wipe away the undead graffiti and see the original as it was meant to read. In practice, this volume is not one you read yourself but one you show to friends with a literary bent in order to see their appalled reaction.
As for Jane Austen herself, the one thing that keeps her from rising from the grave in protest is the difficulty involved in getting to her feet when she's so busy spinning.
edit to bold my favorite part....
flea - Apr 08, 2009 5:55:41 am PDT #14403 of 30000
information libertarian
We had 5 minutes of snow flurries yesterday AM. In GEORGIA.
MacArthur Park will always call up for me the memory of retrieving my mother's wedding cake from the neighbor's fridge in what was essentially monsoon rains, and singing the song as we walked veeeery carefully with our umbrella down the sidewalk.
Ginger - Apr 08, 2009 5:57:37 am PDT #14404 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
They are so wrong about MacArthur Park being the worst song. The worst song ever is clearly Honey by Bobby Goldsboro.
tommyrot - Apr 08, 2009 5:59:08 am PDT #14405 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
They are so wrong about MacArthur Park being the worst song. The worst song ever is clearly Honey by Bobby Goldsboro.
Nah. It's "We Built This City" by Jefferson Starship.
Barb - Apr 08, 2009 5:59:12 am PDT #14406 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
Butterfly Kisses is the worst.
Aims - Apr 08, 2009 5:59:21 am PDT #14407 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Having My Baby. By whoever that is that sings it.
Paula Anka. And now I am ashamed that a) I didn't know that and b) that I can never listen to "Put Your Head on my Shoulder" again.
§ ita § - Apr 08, 2009 6:06:40 am PDT #14408 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The power tools have been going for 20 minutes now. I've been up since before 7, so no big deal to me, but isn't before 8 a bit early for the major noise?
All this so they can raise my rent even more, I suppose. ::shudder::
Thanks for the xkcd explanation. Every now and again he sails completely and totally over my head.